"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the
animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel
nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest
lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen."
Samuel Adams, (1722-1803)

Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Who ELSE can Romney offend, now that he is done insulting England, praising socialism
(seriously), scheduling a $50,000 per plate fundraiser on a national
day of fasting set aside to commemorate Holocaust victims, making thinly
veiled anti-Semitic comments praising Israel’s “business acumen,”and basically telling Palestinians that they suck for being poor? A Palestinian official summed up our thoughts exactly when he said,
“What is this man doing here? Yesterday, he destroyed negotiations by
saying Jerusalem is the capital of Israel, and today he is saying
Israeli culture is more advanced than Palestinian culture.” Indeed. What
IS this man doing here, and would you like to exchange him for Rick
Santorum or Michele Bachmann, because we can maybe work that out for
you! Anyway, you are thinking that there is no one left that he can
possibly insult, but you are WRONG, there is someone, and it is you and
your intelligence.

Despite insistence from GOP leadership that the White House was behind the so-called “Fast and Furious” gunwalking program, a report from House Republicans
released Tuesday names five officials at the Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco, and Firearms as culprits in the misguided effort. All five were
reassigned before the release of the report — the first of three. The
indictments in the report contradict House Speaker John Boehner’s (R-OH)
insistence that the President invoked executive privilege over the
Justice Department’s information on ongoing investigations to protect his personal interests.
The indication, however, is that the upcoming reports will try to tie
the President to the program. It will “address the unprecedented
obstruction of the investigation by the highest levels of the Justice
Department, including the attorney general himself,” according to the
Republicans who wrote the report.

While voter fraud is exceedingly rare — a person is more likely to be hit by lightning than to commit it — then-Indiana Secretary of State Charlie White (R-IN) was convicted of it
earlier this year. Now, a candidate for Pinal County Supervisor in
Arizona has dropped out amid questions about who cast ballots on behalf
of his long-deceased girlfriend.

A Pinal County supervisor candidate has withdrawn from
the race in the wake of voter-fraud allegations involving a former
companion who, records show, has continued to vote by absentee ballot in
the five years since her death. John Enright, 66, had been seeking the
Republican nomination for county supervisor of District 5, an area that
includes Apache Junction and Gold Canyon. …His statement made no mention of the scandal unleashed in an
anonymous, undated letter sent several weeks ago to the Pinal County
Recorder’s Office. As recently as this year, the letter alleged,
someone had been filling out and mailing in absentee ballots addressed
to a woman who died on Feb. 3, 2007. The woman, Sheila Nassar, and
Enright lived together at the time of her death.

Enright has not been charged with any crime and told the Arizona
press “I look forward to learning more about these allegations. If they
are indeed formal allegations, I will defend myself. I very much look
forward to clearing my name.”

But if Enright was indeed casting ballots in his late girlfriend’s
name, he would be guilty of what the Pinal County Recorder called “an
absolute act of fraudulent voting” — and a Class 6 felony.

Voter identification laws would have done nothing to prevent the sort
of absentee ballot fraud alleged here. And the fact that this is
already a felony shows that laws already on the books are clearly
sufficient to punish this exceedingly rare crime.

The stock market. What is it? It is a collection, or “cooperative,” of
people who throw bits of paper in the air and scream their faces off. If
you are rich, it gives you muneez. If you are poor, it gives your boss
muneez. When the stock market goes down, that is because everyone hates the president, but when it goes up, that is because everyone hates the president. If anything, it just makes too much sense! Let us ask CNBC to explain why a stock market surge is due to investors betting on a Romney win, despite the fact that Mitt Romney is not, in fact, actually winning.READ MORE »

Several times, Obama "has apologized for what he deems to be
American arrogance, dismissiveness, and derision; for dictating
solutions, for acting unilaterally ... ."

"He (Obama) has done several things well. Most of those
things are places where he changed his view from where he had during
the campaign. So, for instance, he's left our troops in Iraq and
they're being more successful there. He boosted our effort in
Afghanistan, which is the right course to take. He did not close
Guantanamo, thank heavens."